Last week Angelina Jolie was referred to as a "minimally talented brat" in a private email exchange between Sony executives Amy Pascal and Scott Rubin that was leaked by the Guardians of Peace, who had infiltrated the Sony database stealing employee data, private emails and five unreleased movies. Speaking about the leak, which had seen unfavourable comments also made about Leonardo Di Caprio and Michael Fassbender, Angelina's husband Brad Pitt claimed it was the media who were at fault for reporting on the content of the private documents.
The Guardians of Peace hacked the Sony system on November 24 stealing huge amounts of sensitive data. They've since been leaking them to certain news outlets including the Hollywood Reporter, the Daily Beast and Gawker. Speaking at the premiere of Unbroken last night in Los Angeles Pitt insisted we shouldn't be reading the private exchange.
"I don't see a difference in News Corp. hacking phone calls and hacking emails," he told Access Hollywood at the premiere last night. "I don't think we should be able to participate. I think someone's conversation, whether in email or in person, should be private. We shouldn't be participating and these sites that are disseminating them should stop. They won't."
Pitt at the Unbroken premiere in LA last night (FameFlynetUK)
He also placed some of the blame on the public, who have lapped up the latest Hollywood scandal. Brad added: "We should stop reading them (these private conversations). We won't. It's more of an indictment on us, I think,"
Pitt was standing in for Jolie at the premiere of the World War II epic, which she directed, after the mother of six came down with chicken pox. Though some had speculated it was due to the embarrassing email admission and the lack of her movie picking up any Golden Globe nominations when they were released last week.
